Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It works in w-space because if you have no gates on overview - need to do extra effort to get in/out (giving away you beeing there every time you want to move further, you can control the incoming whs (reducing the mass) AND more important you can't freely roam 40 systems in an hour because you need to scan, each new system is randomly linked to another so that means you can't easily "visit" the same system every night for a good raid. Added that it costs no money for the sov, upgrades, no cyno faggotry either...

should i go on why null isn't wh space and why the no local is only doable in a wh because of the restrictions it has on "acces"...

I didn't read all of it, did read most though. I liked it.

I'd also like a module that would send a false jump signal to hostile ships. A cloak that has to be used within 3500 km of a jump gate. It only cloaks me, but has a chance to give other ships the impression that I actually jumped.

The further from the 2000 km mark the less likely the signal works, the closer to 2000 km I get from the jump gate, the more likely that the signal works.

If I'm outside of 3500 km range of the jump gate, then I only cloak and no jump signal can be faked.


Of course, this means removing me from local if I'm cloaked.

Approval of OP +1

Gimme all that and make space bigger while you're at it...
Bigger gates
Bigger systems (or slower ships, less range on jump drives/bridges)

Thanks for a good post.
Eve needs to evolve... Space is too small in all respects in game and it does not need be that way.

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Liike all really cool ideas, this one fails to take some things into consideration:

-The current system works ie people play eve online and live in places that has local/instant intel.

-The current system is a serious compromise, a compromise that needs to happen because a game has to be fun for the majority

-The current (compromise heavy) system evolved from "natural" forces ie CCP made it this way because doing it other ways resulted or could have resulted in less fun and less interaction.

It is "natural" for people to form big groups to control things, which is why null-sec looks like it does today. you would have to manipulate things to an incredible degree to change this.

It's basically a zero sum game, if you make the game (in null specifically) more friendly to small groups, those same mechanics will either make large groups more powerful in some way, or kill the need for large groups entirely. Lots of people don't like the big alliances, but I think many of us accept them as part of the game (some of us, like me, even enjoy being in a big group).

Living (fighting and ratting) in null, I deal with the compromises ccp had to make every day (High Sec is another such compromise, lots of us hate it, but the smarter folks will grudgingly admit that the game needs it), and no one dislikes squatters and cloaky campers more than I do (I turn lemon into lemonade though, and find ways to screw them back, even put a cyno on an armor tank navy raven as bait once...was fun :) ).

And theroy crafting is fine, but the persons putting out the theroies HAVE to take into account that things exist the way they do now for a reason. Keeping this in mind is the only way to make good changes instead of bad.

Hiding in Eve - why we cloak.

Because we can.

+1 for well thought out, and delivered idea!

I think this would revitalize how things are done in Eve. It would also magnify the role of Scout.
I totally support all of the OP's ideas!

Been reading so many posts of how to make Eve better. This is the best by far.
This game has been losing my attention for a long time, mainly because of this:

"Eve's game design only rewards the biggest and most numerous. CCP needs to build in more game design that rewards a player who is smarter than the rest and attempts to be as asymmetric as possible and do more with less."

Most people are thinking of stuff which should bring in more people. They forget the fact that a lot of people are leaving Eve after they find out that 'the blob' makes everything completely pointless. Why train up that measly 2 % skill, when after all the only thing that counts is how many friends you bring.

+1 and lets keep this on the frontpage.

+1

I can't find fault in your idea, because it's very solid & well thought out. This is how EVE should be.

Thanks for the kind words.

Let me be very clear: this is simply a starting point. A basic foundation with which to generate more thought and speculation until we uncover some truly elegant game design.

Also, Misanth / Mags, you guys might know me by another character from a while back. I'll let you guess as to which one hehe.

"abloobloobloo I'm not completely undetectable when cloaking please give me a crutch CCP"